Feb 28
BHM100: Celebrating "Freedom's Journal," the 1st Black-Owned Newspaper in the U.S.
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BHM100: Celebrating "Freedom's Journal," the 1st Black-Owned Newspaper in the U.S.
African American news blog that features news that may get little or no coverage in the mainstream media
The Biden-Harris Campaign announced an immediate commitment to a $1.5 Million advertising-buy with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) representing the Black Press of America across the United States. The Biden-Harris Campaign also helped to sponsor the NNPA’s 2024 Annual National Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, June 19-22, 2024.
The Negro American Magazine, circa 1928
Barbara McNair meets the press.
The United States government: The free flow of opinions and ideas in the press is a fundamental right upon which the government shall not infringe! [Near v. Minnesota, 1931]
The US government: “In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression...The second is freedom of every person to worship G-d in his own way...The third is freedom from want...The fourth is freedom from fear.” [FDR’s January 1941 State of the Union]
Black newspapers: Discrimination in the military is unacceptable, and undermines the nation’s readiness for war. “We cannot march against enemy planes and tanks and challenge warships armed only with a whiskbroom and a grin!” [Afro-American, 13 Dec. 1941]
The US government: Hey, you need to tone down that subversive language, or there could be serious consequences.
Black newspapers: “What is tyranny in one imperium should not be a blessing in another...If segregation is the curse of Hitlerism then segregation is the curse of any nation that indulges in it.” [Chicago World, May 1942]
The US government: *threatens to revoke mail privileges for Black papers, and physically cuts “inflammatory” stories out of papers shipped abroad*
Black newspapers: Segregationists “are sabotaging the war effort...by seeking to create division and disunity at a time when closed ranks should be the order of the day.” [Atlanta Daily World, 5 Jul. 1942]
The US government: *seizes Black newspapers from soldier’s trunks and sends them to solitary confinement*
Black newspapers: “Forcibly preventing the sale of newspapers is about the most direct abridgement of the freedom of the press that can be imagined, short of shooting the editors or dynamiting the printing plant.” [Chicago Defender, 7 Aug 1943]
The US government: *sends FBI agents to harass Black editors in their offices daily and accuse them of sedition*
Black newspapers: *stare into the camera like they’re on an episode of the Office*
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Information from the following sources: Carroll, Fred. Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Washburn, Patrick S. The African American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2006.
Rest in peace, Ethel L. Payne. A fearless journalist in a fearful time, Payne was the first African American commentator employed by a national network (CBS’s Spectrum in 1972) after her tenacious pursuit of truth and information through the 1950s and 1960s. She died on this date 1991 at the age of 79.
Stamp details: Issued on: September 14, 2002 From: Fort Wayne, TX SC #3667
Known for her assertive questioning style, Payne was one of three Black reporters in the White House Press Corps in the 1950s, and the first
On Sept. 21, a sculpture of Alice Allison Dunnigan, the first African American woman to receive press credentials to cover the Wh...
On Sept. 21, a sculpture of Alice Allison Dunnigan, the first African American woman to receive press credentials to cover the White House and Congress, will go on display at the Newseum.